Commiserations to pljg and team. However, he may take some comfort that he didn't drive to a village 1 hour away, walk for over 4 hours collecting (n-1) stages, only to DNF the final nth stage! (And then drive 1 hour back home again of course!) But enough of my adventures, I'm sure I'll get over it in time … (what's the number for CacheCounsellors again?)

I should say a couple of things here.

1) I didn't intend to keep the number of stages secret on the cache page, as this cache leans more towards cute riverbank animals than Danish detectives on the spectrum of my hides. I filled in the waypoints and ticked the "Show all details except the coordinates" option. However, I think there may be a bug somewhere as this information doesn't appear (or perhaps I've done something wrong, but I can't see what). I left it at that for the time being though, partly wondering if the listing functionality would suddenly start working, and partly wondering if seekers would cope without.

2) I wouldn't be influenced too much by staticman1's sighting of the cache from below. He does adopt a superhero-like tag after all, and probably has evolved an internal Van de Graaf generator to power some sort of laser vision accessory. I haven't spotted the cache from the ground, although I just can discern an attachment mechanism if I know exactly where to look (a dangerous activity in itself, as looking up normally results in treading in sheep poo).

3) The final is I think in the most likely (and most handsome) candidate, assuming the coordinates have been correctly deduced. Height-wise, an approximate limit has been provided in some hint or other. However, this was measured in the field with a dangly thing and came up shorter than it felt!

4) I'm not sure I'd attempt this with a sore ankle, but I have done much sillier things.

Hopefully pljg or his associates will return sometime; I've mentioned often enough a lovely animal I keep seeing here (and those are genuine sightings!).